"Inboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rattle as the gang-plank moved inboard and was deposited on the deck. The girl uttered a little cry of dismay. Then suddenly her face brightened and she began to wave her arm to attract the attention of an elderly man with a red face made redder by exertion, who had just forced his way to the ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... necessary, the box will accommodate itself to a change in the alignment of the shaft. In order that it may be free to move for this purpose it is not fitted with the usual fore and aft flanges. By this means any slight derangement, as in either the outboard or inboard bearing wearing down the fastest, is taken care of, the movement of the box on the inclined surfaces being for this purpose equivalent to the operation of a ball ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose
... inboard, here," suggested Hoddan, "so I can come inside as before, transfer my crew without spacesuits, and leave my boat in your care until ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster
... the dragons, or inboard handled the oars, And the tide of the sea cometh creeping along the stranger-shores, Till those golden dragons are floated, and their unmanned oars awash In the sandy waves of the shallows, from stem to tiller clash: Then setteth a wind from the shore, and the night is waxen a-cold, ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... wrong—the tackline missed out, two J's put on by mistake, or an M instead of a J. Once Mac failed to make fast the two ends, and one hoist of flags went trailing out over the beam. He let them down into the water, so that the weight might swing them inboard, while the other signaller struggled manfully with a hayrake to grapple them; and the Captain cursed and Mac flushed all over, knowing that every ship in the fleet ...
— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie
... been alone in a vast hall with its crystalline dome penetrated by a glow that was without. The purple waters took the light from above and the waves turned to flames. The fountains that mounted at the bows and fell inboard came as showers of gems. (I heard afterwards it was still foggy in London.) And now, having made all I can of sunset and ocean, and a spray of amethysts, jacinths, emeralds, zircons, rubies, peridots, and sapphires, it is no longer possible for me to avoid the saloon, the thought of ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson
... grumbled Benjamin; Ive rode out one squall to-day anchored by the heels, and I wants no more of them. Wheres the harm o doing all the same as yourself? Leave that there door free out board, and youll find no locking inboard, Ill promise ye. ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... were not inclined to leave the deck. The number of men on board was nearly doubled by the addition of those sent down to fill vacancies in other vessels on the blockade. Christy went on the bridge soon after, more to take a survey inboard than for any ...
— On The Blockade - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat • Oliver Optic
... Baldwin turned inboard at last. "I s'pose you're wonderin' how we knew. Well, 'twas Bud passed me the word, and more than that, 'twas Bud broke me out of as promisin' a little game as ever a man sat into. Chips? Enough to fill my service cap afore me, and not all white chips either. And he comes along ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... the deck. Looking out across the sea they saw the viking ship rowing towards them against the wind. In her wake there was a second vessel, drifting helpless and untended, with her sail flapping wildly in the wind and her oars all inboard. Olaf quickly noticed that there were people on her forward deck, and that she was slowly sinking. It was evident to him that she was a trading ship, which the vikings had but newly attacked and plundered. For a moment he hesitated, wondering whether he should hasten to her ...
— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton
... leaped overboard, dived, caught the sack in his powerful grasp, and bore it to the surface. The canoe had been steered for him. The instant he appeared, strong and ready hands laid hold of him and his burden, and dragged them both inboard. ...
— Black Ivory • R.M. Ballantyne
... on to the rope and started to haul the pontoons and their freight inboard, but even as their hands closed on the rope the booming roar of the menacing steamer's whistle permeated the ...
— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton |
